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Boy, I thought I was being a clever boy. 1/4 Irish, I went looking for a one leaf clover on the Web. I found this above. I also found a band called "One Leaf Clover." Jeez, it is so hard to be original in the Internet age. Back in the day, if you and the dudes said something innovative out back, there was no checking the web. Just you and your buddies cackling in the glow of assumed originality. Now, someone has beat you to the punch. It happened all the time before but we never knew it.  Adding an Amen to the writer of Ecclesiastes who writes that "There is nothing new under the sun." Not even a one leaf clover. On YouTube there is a music video posted of Metallica's "No Leaf Clover" song but someone incorrectly titled it "One Leaf Clover."  It doesn't even appear to be the right song. Here is a cool rendition of the tune with orchestral backing . "The soothing light at the end of the tunnel being a freight train?" Boys, l...

The Bible is a book about life. God is the source of all life so it would follow that a Book by God (the Bible) would be about life. The Bible also talks a lot about death...the consequence of sin. Which is essentially trying to find an existence outside of God's moral order. And, that leads to death. Think abortion for one. Promiscuity leads to death just as obesity leads to death. Same difference. Although the Bible is not a book about food, it has a lot to say about food. Here are just a few thoughts ruminating in my mind. Chew on these: Red Meat is supposedly bad for us. A new study has come out that correlates the consumption of red meat with an earlier death. Besides the study being methodologically weak, would God commend meat to man if it was bad? Seriously. Better to investigate what type of meat (grass fed or corn fed), how cooked, and what accompanies red meat as sides (super-sized fries), deadly diet soda (Nutrasweet is poison) or sugary Pop, and lifestyle correl...

How old am I? I remember when Nike was the K-Mart of basketball sneakers. I think they were moving out of just making running shoes into other types of athletic foot-ware. Putting away the waffle-maker.  B.J. Before Jordan.  Made poorly. Crap. I also didn't much like the dude on the basketball team either who worn them. Nike's iconic Swoosh and "Just Do It" mantra was branding excellence. This philosophy admonished wearers to leave excuses behind. I have been reminded of this recently in conversations with several other people who mentioned that they have decided that doing something in a positive direction is better than do nothing. For one, it is walking the treadmill daily, for the other it is visiting the climbing gym. So, often we feel as if we have to go hard core before our efforts matter. Both are experiencing a high degree of success by being consistently good rather than occasionally great. Weekend warrior stuff is stupid. Good way to get hurt and disco...

My neighbor and great friend Sean (ain't it cool when a neighbor can be a great friend? Rather than a pain in the arse?) both share an abiding love for the music of Jimi Hendrix. Sean is a right-brainer, intuitive, sensitive, creative, a great musician. Me, I tend to be more left-brained, verbal, linear. We are an odd match. I think I was supposed to be a right-brainer, but when I was born, I didn't get enough oxygen, and for some reason, my right side of the brain took the hit. I have a significant amount of neurological  impairment on that side but not enough that I can't function. My strengths pull along my weaknesses like a stubborn mule. But there are signs, like in how I like to row a canoe and shoot a hockey stick, that a Lefty is lingering. Right brain on a low ebb. I surmise my love for the music of Jimi Hendrix is an echo of a right-brain dominance that was reversed. I have never been able to put my finger on it but I get the musicality of Hendrix in the se...